Global performance icon on stage, professional kitten baby-talker off stage. We sat down with #TAEMIN (and kitties) and talked Coachella, thoughts on the new generation of K-Pop, and how to be the ultimate kitten daddy. Going live on BuzzFeed Celeb at 3pm PT/6pm ET! https://t.co/vd5sJJKLjL
No matter what I do (meow) all I think about is you (meow) 🐱 Tune in for TAEMIN: The Kitten interview going live May 7th, 2026 at 3pm PT on BuzzFeed Celeb YouTube: https://t.co/nSL6r1vCSQ
“capitalism turns people into props.
we are in a jail pretending to be freedom.
the moment we stop thinking
evil gradually starts growing.
people might be born freely
but we are still chained down/restrained
regardless where we go”
parasite wordings
/may contain inaccuracies/
#TAEMCHELLA #TAEMIN #태민
'Before It Was Allowed: How JONGHYUN Changed the Rules of K-pop'
📰 via Genius Korea (@Genius_kor)
"His influence is not confined to a specific moment, and it does not live solely within his work. It continues in the ways other artists approach their music, their public presence, and their willingness to engage with topics that were once avoided."
https://t.co/QtoWq2IHoh
#SHINee #JONGHYUN #샤이니 #종현
"When you share a waiting room next to BTOB, your eardrums start to hurt, ache and throb. It's not just about talking loudly. They sing non-stop. They keep on singing"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
kpop stans can’t even give grace to taemin. idc if he touched his face or not, that man debuted when he was 14, was routinely feminized and sexualized as a child, harassed in the military, body shamed throughout his career, like where’s the compassion? just leave him alone mane
I keep seeing comments and reviews from actual level-headed veteran fans of theirs that perhaps the reason why the newest album feels disjointed and not cohesive is because the members have spent time apart because of the military and their separate solo projects.
Maybe group dynamics differ for different artists, but the thing is—I’ve loved artists who have now reunited post-enlistment and they and their music are fundamentally still the same.
MONSTA X still sound the same. BTOB still sound the same. DAY6 still sound the same. SHINee still sound the same.
And it’s not even in the sense that their music didn’t change or evolve, because all these artists did expand and explore with their discography over time. But what fundamentally never changed with each of them is their unique identity as artists, which remained solid as a group even as each of them also developed their own artistry as soloists.
I think what it comes down to is that this specific group has always had trouble pinning down what their actual identity is, because even their past music constantly and continuously grappled with asking themselves who they really are.
And that difficulty in embracing their identity shows even more so now.
I think it isn’t really because they have trouble unifying their group identity after a period of separation—but rather because they never really knew exactly what their identity was even before separation, so they never really had anything to come back to in the first place.